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POST– PLAY– “WHEN I INARY SERVICE...ING WAS 7 ORIAL WANTED TO FOOT– 8 I DESI– SIT AT HOMEBALL!” GNED A DOING THAT COMPL– WHILE MY F– ETE IDEN–RIENDS WERE TITY SYS–OUT TEM FOR AN IMAG– NEVILLE BRODY WAS BORN IN 1957 IN LONDON. HE STUDIED FINE ARTS AT HORNSEY COLLEGE OF ART AND GRAPHIC DESIGN AT THE LONDON COLLEGE OF PRINTING. HE BEGAN HIS CAREER DESIGNING RECORD SLEEVES, MAINLY FOR FETISH RECORDS. HE BECAME EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL AS THE ART DIRECTOR OF THE FACE MAGAZINE FROM 1981 TO 1986 AND LATER ARENA MAGAZINE FROM 1987 TO 1990. HE NOW RUNS A DESIGN STUDIO, BRODY ASSOCIATES, AND IS DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON. Supreme—Capsule Collection—
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“I’VE AL– WAYS BE–DIST– EN TRY– RUPTAPH– ING TO THRO–IC DE– CHALL– UGHSIGN” ENGE, RE– GR– THINK, OR
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The Face, No
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Arena Homm
me +, No. 32—2009
IED TEXT, AND OVERLAPPING/LAYERING • HISW F I T OR JUS
ANDBRAC K E T SSES S, CRO
o. 61—1985
HARACTERISEDBY C S KI
nies—1984
ho ire—Micro-P Cabaret Volta
ELF-DESIGNED DISPLAY FONTS, SYMBOLSSUCHA GE S S LAR
o. 59—1985
WHEN IT BECOMES TIME TO PRODUCE AN 80S VOLUME OF ‘PIONEERS OF MODERN TYPOGRAPHY’
Cabaret Voltaire—Red
Mecca—1981
gh—1981
an’t Get Enou
e—Just C Depache Mod
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE BRITISH SECTION WILL BE A ONE-MAN SHOW. WRITE ‘B FOR BRODY’, LARGE. M A R T I N C O L Y E R BLUEPRINT MAY 1985 Stephen Mallinder—Pow Wow
Plus—1992
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PHOTOGRAPH BY LORD SNOWDON FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES, MAY 1 1988 BRODY TYPEFACES USED: “FF TYPEFACE FOUR” FOR THE FRONT COVER; “FF DOME FF TYSON” FOR THE “B”; “FF BLUR” FOR THE QUOTE MARKS.